game user research

Kyle Polich from the Data Skeptic Podcast has released a cast on game analytics, featuring various ramblings from yours truly about analytics, games, challenges and the many opportunities in the field. Get it from iTunes, Stitcher or Direct from the web. Big thanks to the Data Skeptic Podcast team. Advertisements

From the GA blog, a new post on player progression analysis in Tomb Raider: Play style and progression are two important keywords in game analytics, as all methods for optimizing design and monetizations strategies revolve around them. When building games, we design with a specific operational space for the players in mind, so finding out how…

In March I had the pleasure of giving a presentation on game analytics and game user research at the Game User Research Summit in connection with GDC in San Francisco. The talk was mostly an introduction to game analytics and a call for more communication about methods and techniques. The presentation is now online at…